英语词汇“elephant”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

elephant

/ˈɛlɪf(ə)nt

noun (plural same or elephants)

1A very large plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.

Family Elephantidae, order Proboscidea: two species. See African elephant, Indian elephant.

The sale of new ivory was banned in 1989 to curb the slaughter of elephants in Africa....

They will visit Nairobi Nursery, where the smallest orphaned elephants and rhinos are kept.
On watching the footage, you start to believe that elephants may indeed be as intelligent as the great apes.

2A size of paper, typically 28 × 23 inches (approximately 711 × 584 mm).Further, if we recall the great size of a typical elephant, the figure of Coryate is out of scale, much too large.

Phrases

the elephant in the room

Derivatives

elephantoid

/ˌɛlɪˈfantɔɪd/ adjective ...

A 19-year-old man who had been weighed down by an enormous elephantoid tumor had become so overcome with grief that he tried on more than one occasion to commit suicide by swallowing arsenic.
Five patients with varying severities of hyperkeratotic verrucous thickening at the skin illustrate that the condition may occasionally become elephantoid.
The elephantoid fossil record, combined with data on palaeoclimate and sea level, indicates when the large mammals may have crossed one of several land bridges out of Africa, into Asia, and back again, reports Kalb.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French elefant, via Latin from Greek elephas, elephant- 'ivory, elephant'.

Perhaps surprisingly, elephant did not come to us from an African or Indian language, but via Latin from Greek. The Greek word elephas meant both ‘ivory’ and ‘elephant’. It is found in the work of the poet Homer, who probably lived in the 8th century bc, and may have been taken up by the Greeks from an ancient language of the Middle East. Elephant appeared in English in the 14th century, but before that people called them oliphants or elps. The related word olfend was used to mean ‘a camel’—in those days northern Europeans had only vague notions of exotic animals. See also camel, chameleon, giraffe, room, white

单词	elephant
释义	elephant /ˈɛlɪf(ə)nt / noun (plural same or elephants) 1A very large plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal. Family Elephantidae, order Proboscidea: two species. See African elephant, Indian elephant. The sale of new ivory was banned in 1989 to curb the slaughter of elephants in Africa.... They will visit Nairobi Nursery, where the smallest orphaned elephants and rhinos are kept. On watching the footage, you start to believe that elephants may indeed be as intelligent as the great apes. 2A size of paper, typically 28 × 23 inches (approximately 711 × 584 mm).Further, if we recall the great size of a typical elephant, the figure of Coryate is out of scale, much too large. Phrases the elephant in the room Derivatives elephantoid /ˌɛlɪˈfantɔɪd/ adjective ... A 19-year-old man who had been weighed down by an enormous elephantoid tumor had become so overcome with grief that he tried on more than one occasion to commit suicide by swallowing arsenic. Five patients with varying severities of hyperkeratotic verrucous thickening at the skin illustrate that the condition may occasionally become elephantoid. The elephantoid fossil record, combined with data on palaeoclimate and sea level, indicates when the large mammals may have crossed one of several land bridges out of Africa, into Asia, and back again, reports Kalb. Origin Middle English: from Old French elefant, via Latin from Greek elephas, elephant- 'ivory, elephant'. Perhaps surprisingly, elephant did not come to us from an African or Indian language, but via Latin from Greek. The Greek word elephas meant both ‘ivory’ and ‘elephant’. It is found in the work of the poet Homer, who probably lived in the 8th century bc, and may have been taken up by the Greeks from an ancient language of the Middle East. Elephant appeared in English in the 14th century, but before that people called them oliphants or elps. The related word olfend was used to mean ‘a camel’—in those days northern Europeans had only vague notions of exotic animals. See also camel, chameleon, giraffe, room, white
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